Do you think this is appropriate?

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Re: Do you think this is appropriate?

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Peace Mirch

Our prophet Muhammad (SAW) gave dawah to everyone, but the conversion comes from Allah (SWT). Dawah is invitation and since his (SAW)'s teachings were open to everyone it was up to them whoever they were to accept Islam and they did based on the Qur’an, brotherhood, miracles, etc.

It is not our task to go to people on their death bed … assuming this article is true. How would a person be able to make a conscious decision about imaan, when he is suffering the pangs of death?

To play devil’s advocate again, isnt it the case that a hadis goes along the lines of a person knew he was going to be killed in battle by a sahabi and said the kalima, the sahabi killed him anyway because it was coerced, and the Prophet was angry at the sahabi for killing a ‘convert’?

The article is a poor one from the oneset … there has been no attempt at interviewing the people and no attempt to providing the correct interpretation of Islam as seen by the journalist and in fact there has been no attempt to provide a balanced view of the affairs.

With respect to this, I dont think the journalist is in a position to give her interpretation of Islam, as she is not a Muslim. Also that would be more of a opinion piece than a reporting piece.

The person writing the article, editing the article and distributing the article without context or primer should realise the way forward is not to make religious prudence into an evil, but to sift through how religious prudence is being undertaken and provide the best way for it. In my humble opinion the problems we find in religious social enclaves is not going to be solved by liberals bashing them. It will only be solved by other truly religious persons with insight indulging in wise discussions with them to arrive at optimum solutions.

Now that the issue has been reported on, truly religious persons with insight can discuss the issue wisely. Having said that, I am pretty skeptical of the impact of such truly religious persons, as the people involved in all this activity tend to be quite inaccessible to wise discussions. It is unfortunately something we can comment on without solving.